red states rule
10-15-2009, 06:15 AM
Lou Albano was one of the best showmen in the business. I remember my dad yelling at the TV every Saturday afternoon as Lou played the crowd
'Captain' Lou Albano dead at 76
80s wrestler also appeared in iconic video
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — "Captain" Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Albano, whose real name was Louis Vincent Albano, died in Westchester County in suburban New York, said Dawn Marie, founder of Wrestlers Rescue, an organization that helps raise money for the health care of retired wrestlers. He died of natural causes, Marie said.
World Wrestling Entertainment called him one of the company's "most popular and charismatic legends."
With his trademark Hawaiian shirts, wiry goatee and rubber bands hung like piercings from his cheek, Albano was an outsize personality who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, was known as much for his showmanship as for his talent in the ring.
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/local_story_288065842.html
Here is Lou at his best
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'Captain' Lou Albano dead at 76
80s wrestler also appeared in iconic video
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — "Captain" Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Albano, whose real name was Louis Vincent Albano, died in Westchester County in suburban New York, said Dawn Marie, founder of Wrestlers Rescue, an organization that helps raise money for the health care of retired wrestlers. He died of natural causes, Marie said.
World Wrestling Entertainment called him one of the company's "most popular and charismatic legends."
With his trademark Hawaiian shirts, wiry goatee and rubber bands hung like piercings from his cheek, Albano was an outsize personality who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, was known as much for his showmanship as for his talent in the ring.
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/local_story_288065842.html
Here is Lou at his best
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